Life Aware of Itself
(Showing at the O’Brien Photo Gallery 2022)
There is a spiritual essence beneath the appearances of everything. And from within the morning chill of a redwood grove or a quiet stand of white oak, you can feel its existence. Shinto Priests in Japan call it Kodama, the spirit that lives inside a tree.
I believe that our lives, if even for just a moment in all of eternity, is where spirit manifests itself.
These photographs, a work in progress, are about more than a tree, a shrub, or a leaf. They are profiles of family and of individuals wrapped in their own moment of existence – fully aware as we, too, should be.
And with that awareness comes a resolve,
a willfulness of being.
"Ever notice how trees do everythin’ to git attention that we do
.... 'cept walk." Alice Walker, The Color Purple
